Quotes for Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Elie Wiesel

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

Andrea Bocelli

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Myrtle Reed

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

German proverb

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Elizabeth I

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Lao Tzu

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence.

Prophet Muhammad

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Karl Shapiro

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony de Mello

Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.

Carlyle

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Jimmy Reid

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic